Random Profits From Blind Dating
For the last yoke months, I've been going on blind dates through a web placement called CrazyBlindDate.com. My co-workers have been making fun of the image for various reasons, including the on the cards questions, such as "Are you dating a crazy blind girl?" These are the same co-workers who once in a while make me feel terrific by letting document comments about how awful men are, so there you go.
The dates have been charge, nothing revolutionary, in the sense that my love lifestyle has not revolved from single to dating. I've had a couple of following dates, and occasionally email with one of the girls, but the genuine benefits, aside from the practice of talking to strangers without giving a condemn if they like me or not, have been the following:
1) Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk. I guesstimate I'm probably about ten years behind the times on the Chuck Palahniuk discipline. I saw Fight Club, of course, but never deliver assign to it. First blind date that devolved (or evolved, depending on your vantage point) into a mutual but separate browsing period at Green Apple Books saw the bit of San Quentin quail, Jamie, recommend this novel to me, and I bought it a month or so later with a largesse card. Fun, easy reading, with the mother wit of good insights into the human contingency; problematic treatment of women, which is partly an component of the narrator, but also a gratuitous and as-yet unexplained sex commotion. Which makes two books in a row with that, after Al Gore's The Molestation On Reason (now you have to read that, to see if I'm kidding or not.)
2) Photography. Penetrating conversations about photography with a couple girls led to my two secondarily dates, one to the SFMOMA to see a Lee Friedlander express, one to the Legion of Honor to see an Annie Leibovitz expose, both of which were stunning buildings (the Legion of Honor in rigorous; it conveyed a sense of being on top of the city, being skilful to see all of SF and the bay and the ocean. I liked the Friedlander manifest more, but both were fascinating.
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